The day gave young HPR's an insight to the VJP style test, in which they completed tasks involved nose, search, co-operation, 150m drag on a rabbit, water search and retrieve of a duck or pheasent and gun steadiness on while the dog was working onland and in water.
Dogs taking part included 4 x Deutsch Langhaar, 2 x Weimaraner, 2 x Deutsch Kurzhaar, 1 x Grosse Münsterländer and 1 x Rövidszörü Magyar Vizsla
Deertrackers were involved in setting the drag track of the rabbit and also demonstrating schweisshund with one of our Bayerischer Gebirgsschweisshund.
Freya was put forward to demonstrate the schweisshund element. She completed the track, which was aged 5 hours old and approx. 150 yards through a dense copse which also had the added distraction of a pheasent pen in the centre. While she did hesitate a bit due to stinging nettles at the start, she completed the track and demonstrated her reporting (baying) ability at the end.
Freyas track:
We also gave the dogs opportunity to have a go at retrieving a fox as this is something required in the higher levels of the JGHV tests for the HPR types.
Below are some photos of the day:
0 comments:
Post a Comment